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Happy Birthday CERN!

September 29, 2014
News
Today marks 60 years since the 12 founding member states ratified the CERN convention and the European Organization for Nuclear Research was born.The world's largest particle physics laboratory is celebrating...
Physics & Engineering
Particle Physics, Physics
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Meteorite points to life on Mars

September 24, 2014
News
A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite has added to the growing body of evidence that the red plant might have hosted life. Upon this meteorite, researchers found a cell-like structure...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Biophysics, Physics
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Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results

September 22, 2014
News
Spinning dust grains have put a dampener on the celebrations that cosmologists have found faint signals of cosmic background radiation released a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.In...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Alice returns results

September 15, 2014
News
Alice, the miniature ultra-violet imaging spectrograph aboard the Rosetta orbiter, has successfully relayed its first science data from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – it’s darker than expected. NASA’s Alice has been mapping...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Galaxy forming stars at ferocious rate

September 5, 2014
News
A galaxy giving birth to new stars at a ferocious rate has been spotted by NASA astronomers. Dubbed Sparky, the fully-developed elliptical galaxy is a gas-deficient mass of ancient stars...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Lithium problem solved…almost

September 4, 2014
News
Lithium has proved to be a stubborn problem for astrophysicists; the quantities predicted to have resulted from the Big Bang are not present in stars, but the figures have recently...
Physics & Engineering
Astrophysics, Physics
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Van der Waals prevents asteroid spinning apart

August 27, 2014
News
A near-Earth asteroid rotates so quickly that it defies gravity and is held together by van der Waals cohesive forces, a phenomenon never before seen on an asteroid. Researchers from...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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New string theory explains guitarists’ sounds

August 7, 2014
News
A University of Oxford scientist has developed a new string theory in which he describes how the techniques employed by lead guitarists result in their distinctive sound. Methods such as...
Physics & Engineering
Physics, Theoretical Physics
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Rosetta catches up to comet 67P

August 6, 2014
News
Comet-chaser Rosetta has completed its decade-long journey and finally met up with comet 67P.The European Space Agency spacecraft has become the first to rendezvous with a comet, opening up a...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Voyager may not be in interstellar space

August 4, 2014
News
In 2012, Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, but it might not have reached this historic milestone at all. Despite observations suggesting the spacecraft has crossed the boundary, there is...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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